Another month, another log. Did anyone else feel like September flew by?
This is what I do for a monthly log in my bullet journal. One page as an overview. I use the CO (“Creative Output”) column to mark days I’m working on creative projects (zines, drawing, writing). You could use the column to track anything, and even add columns if you wanted more of a habit tracker.
I use the notes section to write down appointments, dates to remember (birthdays, anniversaries), or whatever else is going on that month. When I mark off the the CO column, then I’ll also log what I worked on in the notes section.
I switched to digital journaling in July, but I’m still doing these monthly logs in my bullet journal. I like seeing the whole month at a glance.
“Vignettes From Camelot” includes glimpses into the lives of Arthurian characters: Merlin, Morgana, Arthur, and an unnamed messenger.
The zine is 16 pages long with 4 original stories and hand-drawn illustrations inspired by nature and magic. It’s printed in black and white.
I couldn’t decide on a blue or white cover, and neither could my Instagram poll. 😂 So both colors are available for $4 in my Etsy shop. Shipping is free in the U.S.
If you’re interested in reading about my process for this zine, keep scrolling. 🙂
The stories in this zine started as a series of tweets I wrote a few years ago. My original idea was to write 10 tweets in a thread and have that be one story about people in Camelot. I never finished that, but I took the ideas I had for Merlin, Arthur, Morgana, and a messenger and fleshed them out into these vignettes.
I drew the illustrations by hand using black and gray markers and pens. I wasn’t sure which illustrations would go with which stories, so I drew each page individually. Here are a few of the original illustrations.
When I finished all the illustrations, I scanned them so that I could do the layout digitally.
I used Canva to lay out the text and illustrations. I made many of the illustrations semi-transparent so that the text over them was readable. In some cases, I put white boxes behind the text, so that the words stood out without adjusting transparency on the illustration. Here are two of the pages in Canva.
After I laid out all the pages, I did a few test prints to see how everything looked on paper. I made a some adjustments, and then printed several copies for my Etsy shop.